Do standard 96-well plates or 384-well plates fit in Bioscreen C?
No. The 2 honeycomb plates (a’ 100 wells) of Bioscreen C are surrounded with continuously circulating heating/cooling liquid. Honeycomb plate covers are extra-heated electrically to avoid appearing of condensed water mask. The honeycomb plates, an incubation cassette and a heating/cooling system (peltier system) form a single block where the 96-well plate don’t fit. 100-well honeycomb plates are a new plate format for microbiology work. In microbiology work the 100-well honeycomb plates are superior to 96-well plates and this format can be called a new standard as there are already over 500 installations of Bioscreen C worldwide (November, 2002).
